Friday, 20 January 2023

GP4 Mods List

Hey GP4 fans. 

I've not got any new content in store to present to you right now, however I'll trade that off with lots of old things to share with you instead. 

For a long time, GP4 has always lacked one central location for downloads and those that did start something, well most of them have all but disappeared now. GP4's not been immune from in fighting and ownership arguements that have lead to a fractured community, and there continues to be people who take advantage of free content to earn themselves a quick dollar or two. It's left individuals maintaining their own content and many of those links have been removed or expired, so its difficult to know a) what exists and b) what is available. Without such great resources as gp4db, GP4 Italia, GP4 Central and many others, it's become very difficult to find anything.


But the game is now over 20 years old, and there's two decades of wonderful history in that. Those of you who have been on my blog will know I've tried to keep some older mods alive by keeping them on my cloud drives. For my annual blog tidy up, I've decided to dedicate some time to collecting mods from the past and the present and try and host them for you. I'm indebted to my friends Jürgen 'Quickslick', Carl_gpgames, KerleyF1 and Ariel 'Meteoro405' for their help in compiling this list. 

I've tried to stay mainly with mods, CSM mods at that, because they are a quick and easy way for a beginner to access and play a variety of seasons and series. I've also tried to stick with F1 mods. With a fair few Indycar and DTM mods as well as junior category series being created, and played with over the years, a number of them are included too.

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Sorry, 2025 Fongu here. 

This database has since expanded to include as many mods that I can find (including some non-CSM mods), fictional cars, templates, utilities and editors and real and fictional tracks and trackpacks. I have tried to not include items that are available in mods, so you won't find all cars, helmets and pitcrews etc individually. 

This blog also has a regular ICYMI post which, is a summary of releases in GP4 at regular intervals, helpful for those who dip in and out of the community. 

www.grandprixgames.org is still the go-to source, but hopefully this is a complementary resource where you can find content a bit easier. 

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You can navigate from any of the menus or start here at this page: GP4 Downloads

It begins with a free full GP4 game download along with popular tools GPxPatch and Zaz Tools (which includes CSM). Download and install some mods and you're off and away. 

If you have any mods that you can track down, credit and happy to share, I'll happily add it to the list. 

Let me add: I do not support selling of mods or leeching. 

I intended to do this as a celebration of GP4, praising the original authors, and keeping it all free and available for you to enjoy. It's unbelievable a 20 year old game is still being played so broadly and passionately, so I hope my little contribution will help it survive that bit longer. 

Enjoy!

Wednesday, 4 January 2023

GP4: 2022 Mod by Carl_gpgames

Happy New Year, Race fans. 


As grandprixgames.org is still out of action, you may have missed that an updated 2022 mod has been released in recent days. 


This mod has been expertly compiled by Carl_gpgames. Carl has gone above and beyond in recent years as a CSM mod compiler, as well as pushing himself and others to further mod GP4 in new and existing methods.

A new breakthrough in this mod is that CSM now auto updates the magic data into most of the tracks and there's more details in the documentation in the mod surrounding that. Basically it amends the car setups to cope with the physics and removes some bugs in the previous iteration. 

I'm grateful that all my 2022 cars and helmets have been included in this mod as well as the updated Aston Martin from Excalibur. There's more updates in there, but I suggest you download it and try it yourself. 

Happy Racing. 

Download Link